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dotboss is a easy to use dotfiles manager.
Inspired by Dotman.
- Single file manager.
- No config files.
- Easy to use.
- Use stow to manage dot files.
- Automatically watch changes and backup.
-
Install the dependencies.
stow
bash >= 3
git
tree
gitwatch
inotify-tools
-
dotboss
can be installed from source by simply cloning the repository and putting the shell script into your$PATH
. The bellow commands will do that for you if/usr/local/bin
is in your$PATH
. You may need to involveinstall
withsudo
.
$ git clone https://github.com/ntk148v/dotboss.git
$ cd dotboss
$ bash install.sh
- Prepare your repository, folder structure should look like this:
$ tree
.
|-- LICENSE
|-- README.md
`-- home
1 directory, 2 files
- Configure your Git username & email for commits. For example:
$ git config --global user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME"
$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
- Note that, if you use automatic mode, you have to configure remote url as SSH url. This is documented at Github: Switching remote URLs from HTTPS to SSH. Or you can configure Git to store your username & password.
# Make Git store the username and password and it will never ask for them.
$ git config --global credential.helper store
# Save the username and password for a session (cache it);
$ git config --global credential.helper cache
- Run
dotboss
anywhere in your terminal.
$ dotboss
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\______ \ \_____ \__ ___/\______ \\_____ \ / _____// _____/
| | \ / | \| | | | _/ / | \ \_____ \ \_____ \
| | \/ | \ | | | \/ | \/ \/ \
/_______ /\_______ /____| |______ /\_______ /_______ /_______ /
\/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/
First time use ๐ฅ, spend time to do a dotboss setup
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NOTE: Your dotfiles folder has to contain a subfolder named home
โค Enter dotfiles repository URL:
Explain how dotboss works inside, options...
TODO
You can found the sample dotfiles repository here.